I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

